Newly Extinct Animals
Recently Extinct Animals 1Splendid Poison Frog Extinction Year. According to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation group WDC the baiji is the first dolphin species to become extinct due to humans. 11 Recently Extinct Species Overfishing pollution loss of habitat. Newly extinct animals . Newly described extinct species are generally dug up from the ground via processes that constitute the common image of paleontology. Some of the most famous extinct animals of recent times have been birds--but for every Passenger Pigeon or Dodo theres a much bigger and much lesser-known casualties like the Elephant Bird or the Eastern Moa and many other species remain endangered to this day. The Listers gecko was last seen in the wild in 1987 but the International Union for the Conservation of Nature only recently listed it as extinct in the wild. Ivory-billed woodpecker Last reported sighting in 2004 but no definitive confirmation emerged despite intensive searching over fi. The species thriv...